Self‐control in crows, parrots and nonhuman primates

Self‐control is critical for both humans and nonhuman animals because it underlies complex cognitive abilities, such as decision‐making and future planning, enabling goal‐directed behavior. For instance, it is positively associated with social competence and life success measures in humans. We prese...

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Published in:Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science Vol. 10; no. 6; pp. e1504 - n/a
Main Authors: Miller, Rachael, Boeckle, Markus, Jelbert, Sarah A., Frohnwieser, Anna, Wascher, Claudia A. F., Clayton, Nicola S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2019
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Subjects:
Advanced Review
Advanced Reviews
Animals
Behavior, Animal
Cognition
Cognitive ability
comparative cognition
Comparative Psychology
corvids
Crows
delayed gratification
Evolutionary Roots of Cognition
Humans
Parrots
Primates
Self control
corvids
self-control
comparative cognition
parrots
delayed gratification
ISSN:1939-5078, 1939-5086, 1939-5086
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Summary:Self‐control is critical for both humans and nonhuman animals because it underlies complex cognitive abilities, such as decision‐making and future planning, enabling goal‐directed behavior. For instance, it is positively associated with social competence and life success measures in humans. We present the first review of delay of gratification as a measure of self‐control in nonhuman primates, corvids (crow family) and psittacines (parrot order): disparate groups that show comparable advanced cognitive abilities and similar socio‐ecological factors. We compare delay of gratification performance and identify key issues and outstanding areas for future research, including finding the best measures and drivers of delayed gratification. Our review therefore contributes to our understanding of both delayed gratification as a measure of self‐control and of complex cognition in animals. This article is categorized under: Cognitive Biology > Evolutionary Roots of Cognition Psychology > Comparative Psychology Examples of delayed gratification tasks. (a) Exchange task with a corvid: subject can choose to swap a token (e.g., bottle top) for a reward after a delay; (b) Intertemporal choice: monkey can select the immediately available reward or wait for the delayed reward from a rotating tray.
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Funding information FP7 Ideas: European Research Council, Grant/Award Number: 3399933
ISSN:1939-5078
1939-5086
1939-5086
DOI:10.1002/wcs.1504